In this last series of  blogs we look at curing what ails humanity using 21st century technology. We’ll tackle this in several articles. Many of our 21st century technology solutions may prove effective in treating a range of disease types. What diseases are on our immediate rad

In our last blog we introduced telomeres, the genetic information that slowly vanishes from chromosomes each time cells divide. Researchers who study aging see a correlation between those vanishing telomeres and growing older. But I am getting ahead of myself. Before we can talk about

“Hello Dolly,” not the musical but the sheep. Seen below, Dolly was the first adult mammal cloning success using sheep. Her journey from the petri dish to birth began as a cell taken from a mammary gland of a 6-year old female donor. The technique included putting the cell

Animals come in many shapes and forms. Insects and other arthropods share a common physical attribute. They wear their skeletons on the outside. We call them invertebrates. Humans and other mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, called vertebrates, have an internal or endoskel

In a controlled setting like a hospital doctors and other medical staff work with all the tools needed to save a patient. That is not necessarily the case in the field at a rescue site where victims found may require immediate intervention. Think about scenarios where surgical interve

In our last blog we introduced HeartLander, a device that when inserted into the chest cavity can deliver medication, ablation therapy and provide assistance in lead placement for pacing the heart muscle. HeartLander’s developers hope to shrink it to 3 millimetres from its curre

Image-guided therapy has revolutionized medicine in the latter part of the 20th century and into these first two decades of the 21st. The operating room, once the exclusive domain of surgeons, is today a very different world. Radiologists, oncologists, cardiologists, nephrologists, lu

In earlier blogs we have looked at the evolution of robots and artificial intelligence. In this blog we’ll tackle the subject from the perspective of advances in biomedicine. Why are we humans developing robots for biomedical use? Because robots when properly designed are master

In the original Star Trek television episode, entitled Space Seed we are introduced to Khan Noonien Singh, a product of eugenic breeding programs on Earth. Khan and his crew are discovered  by the crew of the Enterprise in deep space on a ship named the SS Botany Bay. Rescuing Khan ha

What is nanotechnology? What is nanomedicine? In this blog we will look at where nano and medicine meet in the second decade of the 21st century and where we expect to see it go by 2030. Nanotechnology I briefly described nanoscale manufacturing in a earlier blog, the building of devi